Agent Smith

Roger! An interesting take on the issue. The logos = lumen naturale (of flesh, flawed) OR lumen fidei/lumen gratiae (divine, perfect). These two modes...

Si, there are many fine points we have to work out. It all has to hang together somehow. As an eternal novice in philosophy, I'm not in a position to ...

I wouldn't know. Like Paine and you said, we need to know our limitations. As for the arche, it seems beyond our event horizon.

Spoken like one who read the following.

You know already of course that physics, the be-all-and-end-all of science, can be reduced to mathematics; mathematics is pure thought. Hallelujah! :c...

We're all different mon ami. I hope you understand.

:chin:

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Bur what is the word? Gracias for the history lesson, assuming it's accurate. It's a classic case of religious vagueness/obfuscation - the meaning is ...

I intelligo.

I thought I proved ... something. I quite like me proofs. :smile:

Classified.

:up: Is it not the answer you're looking for?

Gracias for the suggestion. Will consider.

:up: Brevity, the soul of wit!

I tried googling Vogel's paradox. Null result. :chin:

Il est facile de voir que ... we can't.

Exist from ex meaning out and sistere which is to stand. In essence, to exist is to stand outside (of one's mind). Il est facile de voir que ... I don...

Si, the devil is in the details.

10-4!

I sympathize with your views - I read you as someone with a highly-developed spiritual side. Myself, I'm drawn to it, very mothishly, and I'm afraid I...

:up: Apologies,

A broken link perhaps.

Amen! :pray: Schopenhauer's The Will?

Argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad misericordiam, and their like.

I intelligo ... The excerpt you provided is strong evidence of real philosophers doing real philosophy and I see now what you meant when you called me...

I see. :up:

I was referring to something along the lines of Pascal's wager.

Read me reply to Wayfarer (vide supra)

First off, apologies if you feel I'm trivializing a profound idea. It's unintended. I only read the Wiki entry on the topic and it's obvious that the ...

I don't think metaphysics is transcendence of the physical. It isn't confined to the physical though. Also I did argue from an epistemo-ontological vi...

Any guesses as to what the first word was that issued forth from God's lips?

No, bereshit, there was a/the word per John. What, in your opinion, is that word? A word in the sense of a word in a language or something else?

:up: Allahu Akbar! El Rachum!

God means different things to different people. Do you have any idea about the motivation for Spinoza abandoning the Christian Jewish idea of God?

:smile: I like to dance, but be warned, it might look like a seizure! I'm just lookin' for a good reason to identify one substratum as primary among m...

Is that a rhetorical question?

The arguments I offered rely on either principles (novacula Occami) or definitions (3 marks of existence & epistemically-limited ontology). You may in...

All 3: first substratum, first cause, first axiom

Il est facile de voir que ... someone, I don't know who exactly, has made a glaring error.

I intelligo.

My two coins ... for what they're worth. Solipsism is about knowledge (epistemology) and not ontology (metaphysics). The only proof that's for sale is...

I'm under the impression that we may have "reasons" other than a good argument to believe. No, I'm not having fun. Fun and I parted ways thousands of ...

Then I don't understand Vogel. Full steam ahead!

I don't have answers to good questions like yours.

Précisément!

:smile: There are only forks! :lol:

I loved 4 times and I lost 4 times. Should I be giving up? :broken: Ubi amor, ibi dolor.

:lol: I dunno but Mr. Anderson, Morpheus, and Trinity are looking for The Keymaker.

I intelligo.